Kherson port earned - "temporary administration" of the region

The Kherson seaport began to work again. This was reported with reference to the message "Military-Civil Administration" of the occupied Kherson region is reported by Interfax.

“The port resumed the work and is preparing for the transshipment of goods. The infrastructure is restored, repairs are being carried out, preparations are underway to resume full work, ”the report said.

The new leader of the port was Andrei Kharitonov, who worked in the field of river and sea transport for more than 20 years.

The export of grain from Ukraine was sharply reduced after the outbreak of war. According to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, in total, Russia blocked 22 million tons of food products in Ukrainian ports. In addition, she “gradually steals, exports and tries to sell” Ukrainian products for export. According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, since the beginning of the war, Russia has abducted and took out at least 400 thousand tons of Ukrainian grain.

On June 1, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed that Ankara would help to clench Ukrainian ports in which the export Ukrainian grain is located.

The next day, the constant representative of the Russian Federation at the UN Vasily Nezenzya said that Russia is ready to provide a safe passage to Ukrainian vessels with grain. For this, under the terms of Russia, Ukraine must cleanse the coastal water area of ​​the Black Sea.

According to the GUR, another buyer of stolen Ukrainian grain is Syria. There, Russia transports ships with grain through the Mediterranean Sea. The grain is also exported to the annexed Crimea, Ukrainian intelligence reports.